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“She was proud of her build, which was in accordance with the old Botswana ideas of beauty, and she would not pander to the modern idea of slenderness. That was an importation from elsewhere, and it was simply wrong. How could a very thin woman do all the things that women needed to do: to carry children on their backs, to pound maize into flour out at the lands or the cattle post, to cart around the things of the household—the pots and pans and buckets of water? And how could a thin woman comfort a man? It would be very awkward for a man to share his bed with a person who was all angles and bone, whereas a traditionally built lady would be like an extra pillow on which a man coming home tired from his work might rest his weary head. To do all that you needed a bit of bulk, and thin people simply did not have that.”
Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine“Happiness leaves such slender records”
it is the dark days that are so voluminously documented.“I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.”
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression“Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman“Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman“Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman“...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...”
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain“However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads.”
Robert Hellenga, Philosophy Made Simple“Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing.”
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